27 and no PhD *sob*

This is it. Barely 12 hours prior to my departure to Malaysia, here I am, sitting in the lab and trying to complete any last minute tasks that I could. Not easy, because I am simply not concentrating very well and I’m still rattling off a whole list of things that I must do before I leave in my head.

But once I leave this evening, it’ll be a complete two weeks break.

In the fortnight, I plan to do as little as possible, and just free my mind from all worries. My PI has been fantastic, telling me to not think about work at all and just get a good clean break.

A few things I planned to do during this period:

• Sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep, sleep
• Eat, eat, eat, eat, eat
• Clear out my old stuff in our family home
• Try to get some cooking tips from my grandaunt
• Get a few massage sessions!
• Pleasure reading

There’s nothing else I want to do apart from these. Not even mini travelling to some place nearby. I just want to stay home with my family and near my friends.

See you all in two weeks when I return!

Wow, peer-reviewed journal of a new level altogether.

James Randerson’s blog entry of God’s journal just goes to show how context of religion can be taken way beyond what I perceive as normal. I mean, no offense, it’s good that one has a religious root to guide his/her personal life, but to try to fit science into the ideas of religion, that’s just so wrong.

But I guess the bunch of people over Answers in Genesis would beg to disagree. Therefore, they’re launching their own version of research journal called Answers Research Journal to “demonstrates the validity of the young-earth model, the global Flood, the non-evolutionary origin of “created kinds,” and other evidences that are consistent with the biblical account of origins.”

In science, we search for an answer to something that we postulate, but we don’t try to fiddle every possible way to make our result conform to religious believes. That’s scientific blasphemy! And by calling their methods as “scientific” this is bound to confuse many and to mislead them into taking these supposed studies seriously, as rightly pointed out by Randerson.

Seriously, someone please stop these loonies…